Day 49 / 40 / 1
perfect summer weather on the first day, arrived in Hesteyri on Monday 2pm ..
The first part of the path to Sæbol was wrong in the map and gps, Wetlands always made it in impossible to go by the mountain side, so we turned (the first few km I went with a nice french guy I met) twice and walked on the shore, which was also the real path, where at a special point it headed up the mountain, after the first river crossing only about 20cm deep, hiked up the mountain and lost the path again, but found it again and had not to walk through the Wetlands again, which would probably cost a lot of time, at that point I hiked alone met one couple and after that nobody for that day..
I decided to head to Látrar instead of Sæbol, it was already high tide though, like it would also be in the morning, but like the guide said, „no problem, you can go by high tide, there is rope and a ladder“, what he did not tell it was a metal chain down the cliff 90-70 degree, the first part was quite ok, the second part was quite hard, with the 20kg backpack it was hell down and it took quite long and a lot of strengh after about a almost 13 km hike and I was glad that I survived, from here on it was a lot of rock climbing and I hoped the rest would be passable with high tide …
and was rewarded with a beautiful beach and my first arctic fox sight on Hornstrandir ..
and an amazing sunset after about 19km hike 🙂 ✌